We spend this week trying to describe bookbinding basics using hand gestures and rattling tools you can’t see. So we’ve got lots of links to videos to help illustrate our points. We also talk about the best basic tools for booksbinding like paper, string and pointy things. All super technical.
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Follow-Up and Tidbits
- First 40 Miles Podcast Sketch Kit Episode
- Copic Collections app
- Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire in Oakland
- Ghost Ship Warehouse
Main Topic: Bookbinding 101
- Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts
- Audrey Niffenegger
- Beinecke Library at Yale
- The Newberry Library
- Richard Harrison Collection of Calligraphy & Lettering
- Determining Paper Grain
- Sparco Long Reach Stapler
- Teflon & Bone Folders
- Awls
- Thread Heaven
- Moo Notebook
- Lassco Corner Rounder
- Existential Pamphlet Binding Video
- Perky Crafty Pamphlet Binding Video
- Fiskars Softgrip Craft Knife
- Coptic binding tutorial from Sea Lemon
- Tisha Moore’s Amazing 16-page art journal video tutorial
- Basic Bookbinding
- Bookbinding Handbook
- Hand Bookbinding
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